UK & Ireland

Vita Group has published plans for new student accommodation and social housing near Waverley Station. New Waverley is a £240m regeneration project in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.

Morgan Sindall Construction has now completed enabling works at Oxford Brookes’ Clive Booth Student Village, next to the Headington campus. The contractor was appointed via the Southern Construction framework to add 515 bedrooms across four new buildings.

Infrastructure manager DIF Capital Partners is acquiring a portfolio of eight UK student accommodation assets for its global infrastructure fund.

A stalled project to build three towers near Piccadilly Station is set to finally be finished - with major changes - three years after construction ground to a halt. New planning documents now show developer IQ Student Accommodation has revised its proposals, focusing solely on the university market.

The final phase of a new student accommodation building in Birmingham City Centre has been submitted to planners. Birmingham-based developer Volume Property has proposed a further 220-bed development to its Volume Works project.

The university has applied for planning permission to provide student accommodation on the upper floors of the Park Point building on the Dublin Road. The lower floors of the building are currently home to the Travel Lodge hotel but the upper levels have been vacant for a number of years.

Plans have been lodged for a major student accommodation scheme in central Manchester featuring three interlinked towers rising to 27 storeys.

Plans have been launched for the build of 288 student apartments on a vacant site on the corner of Glasgow’s Osborne Street and Old Wynd.

The developer has lodged revised proposals for a major PBSA development on Echo Street, a scheme that has been in the pipeline since 2017.

An application has been submitted proposing the creation of more than 200 units of student accommodation in Birmingham in a scheme that represents the third phase of a wider project.